Athlete thinking
Think like an athlete: see your professional life as a series of milestones to push your limits, thrive, and build the confidence to achieve your full potential.
Our Convictions
At Grant Alexander, we believe true success lies in the ability to reach your optimal performance zone – where challenge meets enjoyment. This powerful state, known as flow (a concept introduced by psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi), is marked by total engagement, a sense of mastery, and spontaneous joy.
Just like elite athletes, everyone can access this state – as long as they know and harness their mental strengths.
The Genesis
In the early 2000s, Pier Gauthier, former professional tennis player, and Jean-Marc Sabatier, executive coach, created the Athlete Thinking® method. They identified eight key mental dimensions to unlock peak performance – the A.C.C.E.D.E.R. method.
By 2015, Grant Alexander recognised the powerful parallels between the mindset of top athletes and that of business leaders, and joined forces with the method’s creators to add a ninth dimension: the team factor. Because we believe that in business, success is never just individual – it’s also collective.
We’re All Athlete Minded !
Having an Athlete Mindset is more than an approach – it’s a philosophy that drives us at Grant Alexander every day. It inspires us every day and guides our practice in all our support interventions.
Athlete Thinking® : Our Signature Tool
Athlete Thinking® is our proprietary leadership development tool, designed to bring the mental strategies of elite athletes into the world of business.
This innovative methodology empowers leaders, executives, and rising talents to unlock their full potential by leveraging the mental drivers behind athletes’ success – enabling them to navigate transformation and deliver sustainable performance for their organisations.
The Benefits of Athlete Thinking®
Our unique methodology delivers measurable results. It notably enables individuals to:
- Deepen self-awareness and achieve true alignment
- Gain fresh perspective and innovative thinking
- Strengthen their level of confidence
- Capitalise on their mental strengths for greater performance
- Embrace continuous growth
- Take ownership of their professional journey
- Enhance collaboration and relationships
- Work towards achieving a shared business goal
- Build a clear vision, individually and/or collectively
- Strengthen team cohesion and dynamics
The methodology is available in various formats, individual or collective, depending on the context, and can be used in recruitment processes, coaching, assessments, or outplacement support.
Athlete Thinking® in Action: Where It Makes a Difference
Whether it is to secure a new role, support an Executive Committee in building a shared vision, assist a senior executive through a professional transition, or foster collective intelligence within a leadership team, Athlete Thinking® addresses a wide range of organisational and leadership challenges.
OUR TEAMS
Our senior consultants have held executive positions, often at international level and within multicultural environments, enabling them to address business and leadership challenges with real relevance. Certified and trained by leading institutions, they continuously enrich their practice. Each year, they deliver at least 100 hours of coaching and benefit from 8 to 10 hours of supervision. They adhere to the Syntec Conseil code of ethics and, for some, also to those of the ICF and EMCC.
